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56-480: It was first announced at Ignite 2021 and the specification was released in March 2021. It is based on spreadsheet -like formulas to make it accessible to large numbers of people. It was also influenced by programming languages and tools like Pascal , Mathematica , and Miranda . As Microsoft describes the language, it heavily borrows from the spreadsheet paradigm. In a spreadsheet, cells can contain formulas referring to

112-658: A Vanity Fair profile stated that Ballmer and Gates no longer talk to each other due to animosity over Ballmer's resignation. In a November 2016 interview, Ballmer said he and Gates have "drifted apart" ever since, saying that they always had a "brotherly relationship" beforehand. He said that his push into the hardware business, specifically smartphones , which Gates did not support, contributed to their relationship breakdown. After saying in 2008 that he intended to remain CEO for another decade, Ballmer announced his retirement in 2013, after losing billions of dollars in acquisitions and on

168-430: A mind meld . Combative debates—a part of Microsoft's corporate culture—that many observers believed were personal arguments occurred within the relationship; while Gates was glad in 2000 that Ballmer was willing to become CEO so he could focus on technology, The Wall Street Journal reported that there was tension surrounding the transition of authority. Things became so bitter that, on one occasion, Gates stormed out of

224-485: A 14-year period, the company tripled sales and doubled profits, but lost its market dominance and missed out on 21st-century technology trends such as the ascendance of smartphones in the forms of iPhone and Android . Players and sportswriters generally consider Ballmer's ownership of the Clippers as an improvement over previous owner Donald Sterling , citing his willingness to acquire superstar players and finance

280-626: A complaint from your government is a very awkward, uncomfortable position to be in. It just has all downside. People assume if the government brought a complaint that there's really a problem, and your ability to say we're a good, proper, moral place is tough. It's actually tough, even though you feel that way about yourselves." Upon becoming CEO, Ballmer required detailed business justification to approve new products, rather than allowing hundreds of products that sounded potentially interesting or trendy. In 2005, he recruited B. Kevin Turner from Walmart , who

336-458: A conference in NYC in 2009, Ballmer criticized Apple's pricing, saying, "Now I think the tide has turned back the other direction (against Apple). The economy is helpful. Paying an extra $ 500 for a computer in this environment—same piece of hardware—paying $ 500 more to get a logo on it? I think that's a more challenging proposition for the average person than it used to be." In 2015, when Apple had become

392-575: A corporation instead of a private partnership, he proposed that Ballmer own 8% of the company in exchange for cancelling the profit-sharing model. Paul Allen initially disagreed, but Gates and Allen reached an agreement when Gates agreed to fund an outsized majority of Ballmer's 8% stake. When Microsoft was incorporated in 1981, Ballmer owned 8% of the company. In 2003, Ballmer sold 39.3 million Microsoft shares for about $ 955 million, reducing his ownership to 4%. The same year, he replaced Microsoft's employee stock options program. In his first 20 years at

448-449: A directory. myTechEd is a free resource available for both in-person attendees and virtual attendees who are not able to make it to the annual conference. Gathered from event page and announcements from the event Twitter feed. Steve Ballmer Steven Anthony Ballmer ( / ˈ b ɔː l m ər / ; March 24, 1956) is an American businessman and investor who served as chief executive officer of Microsoft from 2000 to 2014. He

504-600: A dozen new businesses, such as the data centers division and the Xbox entertainment and devices division ($ 8.9 billion), and oversaw the acquisition of Skype. Ballmer also constructed the company's $ 20 billion Enterprise Business, consisting of new products and services such as Exchange , Windows Server , SQL Server , SharePoint , System Center, and Dynamics CRM , each of which initially faced an uphill battle for acceptance but have emerged as leading or dominant in each category. This diversified product mix helped to offset

560-455: A large publicly traded American company", saying he had "steered Microsoft out of some of the fastest growing and most lucrative tech markets (mobile music, headsets and tablets)". In 2009, and for the first time since Bill Gates resigned from day-to-day management at Microsoft, Ballmer delivered the opening keynote at CES . As part of his plans to expand on hardware , on June 19, 2012, Ballmer revealed Microsoft's first ever computer device,

616-666: A local ownership group involving Ballmer made a "game-changing" commitment to invest $ 150 million in cash toward a proposed $ 300 million renovation of KeyArena and were ready to purchase the Seattle SuperSonics from the Professional Basketball Club LLC in order to keep the team in Seattle. However, this initiative failed, and the SuperSonics relocated to Oklahoma City , Oklahoma , where they now play as

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672-410: A meeting after a shouting match in which Ballmer jumped to the defense of several colleagues, according to an individual present at the time. After the exchange, Ballmer seemed "remorseful", the person said. Once Gates leaves, "I'm not going to need him for anything. That's the principle", Ballmer said. "Use him, yes, need him, no". In October 2014, a few months after Ballmer left his post at Microsoft,

728-474: A net worth of $ 123 billion. Ballmer was hired by Bill Gates at Microsoft in 1980, and subsequently left the MBA program at Stanford University . He eventually became president in 1998, and replaced Gates as CEO on January 13, 2000. On February 4, 2014, Ballmer retired as CEO and was replaced by Satya Nadella ; Ballmer remained on Microsoft's board of directors until August 19, 2014. Under Ballmer's leadership,

784-564: A private college preparatory school in Beverly Hills , Michigan , with a score of 790 on the mathematical section of the SAT and was a National Merit Scholar . (He eventually became a member of the school's board of directors.) Ballmer, the first in his family to graduate from college, attended Harvard College , where he was a manager for the Harvard Crimson football team and a member of

840-489: A strong grasp of business and operations but lacking technological vision. On February 4, 2014, Satya Nadella succeeded Ballmer as CEO. Although as a child he was so shy that he would hyperventilate before Hebrew school , Ballmer is known for his energetic and exuberant personality, which is meant to motivate employees and partners, shouting so much that he needed surgery on his vocal cords. Ballmer's excited stage appearances at Microsoft events were widely circulated on

896-521: A tablet called Microsoft Surface at an event held in Hollywood, Los Angeles. He followed this by announcing the company's purchase of Nokia 's mobile phone division in September 2013, his last major acquisition for Microsoft as CEO. On August 23, 2013, Microsoft announced that Ballmer would retire within the next 12 months. A special committee that included Bill Gates would decide on the next CEO. There

952-409: Is a vast content catalog from which attendees can select sessions that will be most beneficial. An agenda is published online before the conference begins. From 2024, Microsoft merged its partner event, Microsoft Inspire, with Microsoft Ignite to have one single event for both formats. Was previously known as TechEd South Africa until 2007, where it changed to TechEd Africa. 2007 was also the last year

1008-557: Is an annual conference for developers, IT professionals and partners, hosted by Microsoft . The first conference, then known as TechEd , happened in 1993 in Orlando , Florida , United States . After the TechEd conference held in Barcelona, 2014, Microsoft changed its conference schedule and introduced the name Microsoft Ignite starting in 2015. Thus marking the transition from the TechEd name to

1064-672: Is the largest IT Conference in New Zealand and is held annually in Auckland. Each year for the North American event changes to a new location. In 2024, Microsoft Ignite is returning to Chicago and will be held at the McCormick Place in Chicago , Illinois between November 18-22, 2024. TechEd Online was an online supplement to the in-person events, which contained video interviews recorded at

1120-536: Is the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is a co-founder of Ballmer Group , a philanthropic investment company. As of November 2024, Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimates his personal wealth at around $ 145 billion, making him the tenth- richest person in the world . At the same time Forbes ranks him as the eighth-richest person with

1176-695: The Seattle Times reported that the IRS sued Ballmer, Craig Mundie , Jeff Raikes , Jim Allchin , Orlando Ayala and David Guenther in an effort to compel them to testify in Microsoft's corporate tax audit. The IRS had been looking into how Microsoft and other companies deal with transfer pricing . In 2015, he and his wife co-founded Ballmer Group , a philanthropic investment company that aims to help children, particularly those in poor families, achieve economic mobility . In December 2023, CNN estimated that Ballmer

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1232-957: The Fox Club , worked on The Harvard Crimson newspaper as well as the Harvard Advocate , and lived down the hall from fellow sophomore Bill Gates . He scored highly in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition , an exam sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America , scoring higher than Bill Gates. He graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in applied mathematics and economics in 1977. Ballmer worked as an assistant product manager at Procter & Gamble for two years, where he shared an office with Jeff Immelt , who later became CEO of General Electric . After briefly trying to write screenplays in Hollywood, he started attending

1288-591: The Stanford Graduate School of Business for his MBA (where Mukesh Ambani was his classmate ), but dropped out in 1980 to join Microsoft. Ballmer joined Microsoft on June 11, 1980, and became Microsoft's 30th employee and the first business manager hired by Gates. Ballmer joined Microsoft with a salary of $ 50,000 plus 10% of the profit he generated and no equity. However, Ballmer's profit-share started to balloon out of control as Microsoft grew. When Dave Marquardt suggested for Microsoft to reorganize as

1344-510: The "talent-hoarding fiefdoms"; in 2012, this led Businessweek to say that the company "arguably [had] the best product lineup in its history". Ballmer drove Microsoft's "connected computing" strategy with acquisitions such as Skype . Under Ballmer's tenure as CEO, Microsoft's share price stagnated even as the company's annual revenue surged from $ 25 billion to $ 70 billion, while its net income increased 215% to $ 23 billion, and its gross profit of 75 cents on every dollar in sales

1400-484: The Internet as viral videos . One of his earliest known viral videos was a parody video, produced for Microsoft employees in 1986, promoting Windows 1.0 in the style of a Crazy Eddie commercial. Ballmer and Brian Valentine later repeated this in a spoof promotion of Windows XP . A widely circulated video was his entrance on stage at Microsoft's 25th anniversary event in September 2000, where Ballmer jumped across

1456-477: The Surface tablet. Microsoft's stock price rebounded on the news. Ballmer says that he regretted the lack of focus on Windows Mobile in the early 2000s, leaving Microsoft a distant third in the smartphone market [in 2013]. Moreover, he attributed the success of the expensively-priced iPhones to carrier subsidies. He went on to say, People like to point to this quote where I said iPhones will never sell, because

1512-677: The United States in 1914 and became a merchant for a glass store. Through his mother, Ballmer is a second cousin of actress and comedian Gilda Radner . Ballmer grew up in the affluent community of Farmington Hills , Michigan . Ballmer also lived in Brussels from 1964 to 1967, where he attended the International School of Brussels . In 1973, he attended college prep and engineering classes at Lawrence Technological University . He graduated as valedictorian from Detroit Country Day School ,

1568-639: The Windows division. Ballmer attracted criticism for failing to capitalize on several new consumer technologies, forcing Microsoft to play catch-up in the areas of tablet computing, smartphones and music players with mixed results. According to The Wall Street Journal , under Ballmer's watch, "In many cases, Microsoft latched onto technologies like smartphones, touchscreens, 'smart' cars and wristwatches that read sports scores aloud long before Apple or Google did. But it repeatedly killed promising projects if they threatened its cash cows [Windows and Office]." Ballmer

1624-424: The autonomy needed to make major management changes at Microsoft. When Ballmer took over as CEO, the company was fighting an antitrust lawsuit brought on by the U.S. government and 20 states, plus class-action lawsuits and complaints from rival companies. While it was said that Gates would have continued fighting the federal suit, Ballmer sought to settle these, saying: "Being the object of a lawsuit, effectively, or

1680-528: The company's reliance on PCs and mobile computing devices as the company entered the post-PC era ; in reporting quarterly results during April 2013, while Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 had not managed to increase their market share above single digits, the company increased its profit 19% over the previous quarter in 2012, as the Microsoft Business Division (including Office 365 ) and Server and Tools division (cloud services) are each larger than

1736-486: The company, Ballmer headed several Microsoft divisions, including operations, operating systems development, and sales and support. In February 1992, he became Executive Vice President for Sales and Support. Ballmer led Microsoft's development of the .NET Framework . Ballmer was promoted to President of Microsoft in July 1998, making him the de facto number two after the chairman and CEO, Bill Gates. On January 13, 2000, Ballmer

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1792-523: The construction of Intuit Dome . Steven Anthony Ballmer was born on March 24, 1956, in Detroit , Michigan, as the son of Beatrice Dworkin and Frederic Henry (Fritz Hans) Ballmer, a manager at the Ford Motor Company . Frederic (1923–2000) was from Zuchwil , Switzerland, and arrived in the United States in 1948. He is Jewish. Steve's mother was the daughter of Samuel Dworkin, a Russian Jew who fled to

1848-417: The contents of other cells; if the user changes the content of a cell, the values of all its dependent cells are automatically updated. In a similar fashion, the properties of components in a Power Fx program are connected by formulas (whose syntax is very reminiscent of Excel ) and their values are automatically updated if changes occur. For instance, a simple formula may connect a component's color property to

1904-501: The conversation Mr. Ballmer said: "Just tell me it's not Google." I told him it was Google. At that point, Mr. Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office. Mr. Ballmer then said: "Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to fucking kill Google." Ballmer then resumed attempting to persuade Lucovsky to stay at Microsoft. Ballmer has described Lucovsky's account of

1960-406: The cost into the customer's monthly bill. In July 2000, Ballmer called the free software Linux kernel " communism " and further claimed that it infringed with Microsoft's intellectual property. In June 2001 he called Linux a "cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches". Ballmer used the notion of "viral" licensing terms to express his concern over

2016-474: The current one. The conference normally lasts between three and five days, and consists of presentation and whiteboard sessions and hands-on labs. It offers opportunities to meet Microsoft experts, MVPs and community members. Networking is enhanced through parties, community areas and "Ask the Expert" sessions. The event also includes an exhibition area where vendors can show off technologies and sell products. There

2072-567: The event was hosted at Sun City , after which it was moved to the Durban International Conference Centre (ICC) due to the growing size of the audience, which was no longer able to be accommodated at Sun City. TechEd Australia is the largest TechEd in the Asia-Pacific region. Microsoft Ignite is an annual event in cities like Amsterdam . Microsoft TechEd India has been an annual fixture since 2003 except for 2008 which

2128-624: The event, videos of sessions and keynotes, blogs and speaker blog aggregation. Much of this content could first be found on Microsoft's Channel 9 , but now is ordinarily available directly on the Ignite website itself. For TechEd North America, video recordings, session slide decks, and supplemental content can be found on myTechEd. Microsoft myTechEd is an online community and social networking tool where conference attendees can participate in technical discussions, access recordings of past year's sessions, and connect with speakers and other attendees through

2184-785: The fact that the GNU General Public License (GPL) employed by such software requires that all derivative software be under the GPL or a compatible license. In April 2003 he even interrupted his skiing holiday in Switzerland to personally plead with the mayor of Munich not to switch to Linux. But he did not succeed with this and Munich switched to LiMux , despite his offering a 35% discount at his lobbying visit . In March 2016, Ballmer changed his stance on Linux, saying that he supports his successor Satya Nadella 's open source commitments. He maintained that his comments in 2001 were right at

2240-591: The incident as a "gross exaggeration of what actually took place". During the 2011 Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, he said: "You don't need to be a computer scientist to use a Windows Phone and you do to use an Android phone ... It is hard for me to be excited about the Android phones." In 2013, Ballmer said that Google was a " monopoly " that should be pressured from market competition authorities. On March 6, 2008, Seattle mayor Greg Nickels announced that

2296-475: The price at $ 600 or $ 700 was too high. And there was a business model innovation by Apple to get it essentially built into the monthly cellphone bill. Ballmer called the acquisition of the mobile phone division of Nokia his "toughest decision" during his tenure. Ballmer hosted his last company meeting in September 2013, and stepped down from the company's board of directors in August 2014. On December 24, 2014,

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2352-414: The stage and shouted, "I love this company!" Another viral video was captured at a Windows 2000 developers' conference, featuring a visibly perspiring Ballmer repeatedly chanting the word "developers". Ballmer was Gates' best man at his wedding to Melinda French , and the two men described their relationship as a marriage. They were so close for years that another Microsoft executive described it as

2408-669: The time but that times have changed. In 2005, Microsoft sued Google for hiring one of its previous vice presidents, Kai-Fu Lee , claiming it was in violation of his one-year non-compete clause in his contract. Mark Lucovsky , who left for Google in 2004, alleged in a sworn statement to a Washington state court that Ballmer became enraged upon hearing that Lucovsky was about to leave Microsoft for Google , picked up his chair, and threw it across his office, and that, referring to then Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt (who had previously worked for competitors Sun and Novell), Ballmer vowed to "kill Google." Lucovsky reports: At some point in

2464-553: The value of a slider component; if the user moves the slider, the color changes. The initial formula language was created by a Microsoft team led by Vijay Mital, Robin Abraham, Shon Katzenberger and Darryl Rubin as part of the Tangram and Siena projects. Later, as part of Power Apps, Greg Lindhorst and Mike Stall led the effort to enhance the language to what is now become Power Fx. Power Fx is available as Open-source software . The source code

2520-465: The world's most valuable company, Ballmer called Microsoft's decision to invest in Apple to save it from bankruptcy in 1997 as the "craziest thing we ever did". In 2016, Ballmer revisited his iPhone statements, saying, "People like to point to this quote...but the reason I said that was [that] the price of $ 600–$ 700 was too high". He said he did not realize that Apple was going to have phone carriers build

2576-451: Was a list of potential successors to Ballmer as Microsoft CEO, but all had departed the company: Jim Allchin , Brad Silverberg , Paul Maritz , Nathan Myhrvold , Greg Maffei , Pete Higgins , Jeff Raikes , J. Allard , Robbie Bach , Bill Veghte, Ray Ozzie , Bob Muglia and Steven Sinofsky . B. Kevin Turner , Microsoft's Chief Operating Officer (COO), was considered by some to be a de facto number two to Ballmer, with Turner having

2632-522: Was double that of Google or IBM . With the company's total annual profit growth of 16.4%, Ballmer's tenure at Microsoft surpassed the performances of other well-known CEOs such as General Electric 's Jack Welch (11.2%) and IBM 's Louis V. Gerstner Jr. (2%). These gains came from the existing Windows and Office franchises, with Ballmer maintaining their profitability, fending off threats from competitors such as Linux and other open-source operating systems and Google Docs . Ballmer also built half

2688-542: Was even named one of the worst CEOs of 2013 by the BBC . As a result of these many criticisms, in May 2012, hedge fund manager David Einhorn called on Ballmer to step down as CEO of Microsoft. "His continued presence is the biggest overhang on Microsoft's stock," Einhorn said in reference to Ballmer. In a May 2012 column in Forbes magazine, Adam Hartung described Ballmer as "the worst CEO of

2744-609: Was geared towards technology professionals working on IT infrastructure. In 2007, TechEd was held in Bangalore. In 2009, TechEd was held in Hyderabad in the month of May. Rechristened Microsoft TechMela, the name change was necessitated by an urge to Indianize the event and its content so that it aligned with the ethos of every Indian. It was attended by over 2,500 CXOs, TDMs, BDMs, Developers, IT Professionals, Architects, Designers, faculty Members and Technology Students. TechEd-India 2009

2800-808: Was keynoted by Qi Lu . In 2012, 2013, and 2014, Tech Ed India was held in Bangalore at The LaLiT Hotels, Palaces and Resorts. TechEd conferences in Israel were held in Eilat . The first TechEd conference was held in 2001, with more than 1,000 participants. Six more conferences were held until 2010. The Latin American TechEd has always been held in São Paulo, Brazil. However, there was also an edition of it in Mexico in 2001. First started in 2010 and hosted in Dubai. TechEd New Zealand

2856-661: Was keynoted by Steve Ballmer , the only TechEd event worldwide where Steve Ballmer was to speak. There were 28 Technical Tracks that spanned more than 112 breakout sessions, 24 instructor-led Labs, more than 20 Chalk-Talk sessions. The tracks were designed as a navigational tool which assisted in finding the sessions and labs best suited for individual needs. In 2011, TechEd India was held in Bangalore from March 23–25 at Hotel Lalit Ashok. The event included keynotes by Senior Microsoft Executives, breakout sessions, hands-on-labs, instructor-led labs, product team tents, free Microsoft certification, community programs and solution expo. The event

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2912-499: Was officially named the chief executive officer; he would shed the title of president in February 2001. As CEO, Ballmer handled company finances and daily operations, but Gates remained chairman of the board and still retained control of the "technological vision" as chief software architect. Gates relinquished day-to-day activities when he stepped down as chief software architect in 2006, while staying on as chairman, and that gave Ballmer

2968-469: Was set to collect $ 1 billion in dividends from his ongoing ownership of Microsoft stock, after the company announced an increase in its dividend to $ 3 per share. Ballmer was a director of Accenture and a general partner of Accenture SCA from 2001 to 2006. Details about his remuneration in these positions remain undisclosed. In 2007, Ballmer said, "There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance." Speaking at

3024-504: Was shared under MIT license by Microsoft on November 2. 2021. Only the documentation was originally open source . In the April 2024 feature update, Microsoft introduced two new Copilot features for Power Fx: Explaining a Formula and Generating Power Fx from Natural Language. These features aim to simplify the use of Power Fx by providing natural language explanations and generating formulas from user input. Ignite 2021 Microsoft Ignite

3080-540: Was the only year when Microsoft TechEd India event was not organized. In 2006, TechEd was held in New Delhi, Pune, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore during the month of June. There were two TechEd events held in each city, the first one delved into architectural aspects of technology and laid emphasis on the needs of the Architect audience alongside four tracks focused on Platform and Tools for Developers. The second event

3136-436: Was the president and CEO of Sam's Club , to become Microsoft's chief operating officer. Turner was hired at Microsoft to lead the company's sales, marketing, and services group and to instill more process and discipline in the company's operations and salesforce. Since Bill Gates' retirement, Ballmer oversaw a "dramatic shift away from the company's PC-first heritage", replacing most major division heads in order to break down

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